Someone mentioned yt, I'll go ahead and mention the imo clunky but standard in a lot of plasma/fluid physics, which is visit[0]. Not really a fan personally but a lot of people I know like it.
Tbh, for 2D data, I've written scripts that sort of just make a bunch of pngs from matplotlib and string them together using ffmpeg into a movie. For 3D data, I used to use mayavi and ffmpeg to make movies, but that too is pretty clunky. Mayavi feels closest to matplotlib which is why I like it, yt feels like there is way too much boilerplate to just get a plot (for example, I have to specify units for my data before a plot a flat array, I mean wtf).
Tbh, for 2D data, I've written scripts that sort of just make a bunch of pngs from matplotlib and string them together using ffmpeg into a movie. For 3D data, I used to use mayavi and ffmpeg to make movies, but that too is pretty clunky. Mayavi feels closest to matplotlib which is why I like it, yt feels like there is way too much boilerplate to just get a plot (for example, I have to specify units for my data before a plot a flat array, I mean wtf).
[0] https://wci.llnl.gov/simulation/computer-codes/visit/